Core Principles of Teaching Children How to Teach Themselves to Read:
• Effective early reading instruction is based on activities that guide the child from speech to print, from sound to symbol and which move from the concrete to the abstract.
• Teach the alphabetic principle before you teach the alphabet.
• Letter knowledge and decoding skills are best learned through the child’s application of the alphabetic principle using self-guided materials to match speech sounds to printed letters and words.
• Freedom to choose activities in the learning environment is key to gradually shifting responsibility for learning to the student.
• Freedom to choose individualizes the learning experience for the student, according to his strengths and interests.
• Repetition is the healing balm of education. It is the teacher’s best teaching tool and the quickest, most direct way for a child to master early literacy skills.
• Emphasis must shift from a traditional model of memorization through drill, to a deeper, more permanent learning through self-guided hands-on activities.
สารบัญ
Part I:
A New Model for Teaching Young Children to Read
Introduction
Self-Guided Learning
The Alphabetic Principle
A New Role for the Teacher
Activity Clusters
Self-Checking Practice Sheets
Individualized Instruction
Principles of Effective Early Reading Instruction
How a Child Teaches Himself the Alphabet
How a Child Teaches Himself to Decode
Organizing the Self-Directed Learning Environment
Supervised Practice
Intervention for Struggling Readers
Part II:
Implementing the Method
Overview
Phonemic Awareness
Teaching the Alphabet
3-Letter Word Activities
4-Letter Word Activities
5 & 6-Letter Word Activities
Short Vowel Phrases & Sentences
Decodable Readers
New Spelling Patterns and Phonograms
Classified Vocabulary
Leveled Readers
Appendix A
Program Overview
Appendix B
Principles of Teaching Children How to Teach Themselves to Read
Appendix C
Student Self-Checking Practice Sheets
Appendix D
Rhyming Activities
Appendix E
Supplemental Letter Recognition Activities
Appendix F
High Frequency (Dolch) Words
Appendix G
Early Reading Mastery Literacy Centers